This Week at NEJM.org December 2, 2010
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(Perspective
Health Hazards of “Don’t Ask, Don't Tell” * Government Payment for Health Care — Causes and Consequences * Influenza Vaccine — Safe, Effective, and Mistrusted
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On August 10, 2010, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared an end to the 2009 influenza A (H1N1) pandemic. It is fortunate that the virus that had spread worldwide so quickly turned out to be less severe than was first feared. It is worth remembering, though, that an earlier strain of H1N1 influenza — the one that emerged in 1918 — sparked the worst closely observed and recorded pandemic in history, killing an estimated 20 million to 40 million people worldwide.
The 2009 H1N1 virus did give us one gift of inestimable value: it provided a full-scale test of the . . .
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The Emerging Importance of Patient Amenities in Hospital Care Becoming a Physician: Gratitude, Memories, and Meaning in Medicine Residents’ Perspectives on ACGME Regulation of Supervision and Duty Hours — A National Survey)
Original Articles
Mutations in GNA11 in Uveal Melanoma * Adjuvant Docetaxel for High-Risk, Node-Negative Breast Cancer * Body-Mass Index and Mortality among 1.46 Million White Adults * Brief Report: Exome Sequencing, ANGPTL3 Mutations, and Familial Combined Hypolipidemia *Special Article
Shattuck Lecture: Innovation, Regulation, and the FDA *Review Article
Medical Progress: Airway Mucus Function and Dysfunction *Images in Clinical Medicine
Chorioretinal Granuloma in Tuberculosis * Flail Chest *
Clinical Problem-Solving
In Search of *Editorial
Clinical Implications of Basic Research
Reversing the Hemoglobin Switch *
Correspondence
Inhibition of Mutated BRAF in Melanoma * Diarrhea from Ipilimumab in Melanoma * Early Palliative Care in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer * A Randomized Trial of Tai Chi for Fibromyalgia * Early-Stage Hodgkin’s Lymphoma * Colchicine's Other Indication — Effect of FDA Action * Amenorrhea from Breast Cancer Therapy — Not a Matter of Dose * Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria — Hemolysis before and after Eculizumab *
Corrections
Case 27-2010: A 73-Year-Old Woman with Chronic Anemia * Performance of Common Genetic Variants in Breast-Cancer Risk Models * Mortality Attributable to Smoking in China *)
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